sivilize
Verbe
[modifier le wikicode]sivilize \sɪvəlaɪz\
- Orthographe volontairement fausse du verbe civilize (civiliser), employé à l'origine dans The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain), qui renforce l’insoumission du protagoniste et ironise sur la civilisation esclavagiste de la narration.
The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.
— (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, chapitre premier)Michiko Kakutani, thirty-year New York Times book critic, affirms this point in her January Times article, “Light Out Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You”: “To censor or redact books on school reading lists is a form of denial: shutting the door on harsh historical realities—whitewashing them or pretending they do not exist.”
— (Mackenzie Spicer, Censoring Huck Finn)
Notes
[modifier le wikicode]S’emploie le plus souvent entre guillemets presque exclusivement en référence à Huckleberry Finn.